Achieve the highest cumulative score, for the hour, of any player on the hourly leaderboard

Achievement Guide for Win the hour

Achievement won on 03 May 12TA Score for this game: 348
Posted on 03 May 12 at 08:22, Edited on 27 January 13 at 04:11

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(Edit) The Arabic board is up and is by far the easiest ever. Most games end with 1-5 people in the world. It's just a matter of getting the best digram available in the hour and maxing it. 350-500 points should net you the achievement. Also only the top 50 or so people have much more than 85k so the top 250 achievement is easy as well (/Edit).

I got this on the Dutch dictionary. It would not pop even though I was on top of the "Best of the Hour" Leaderboard, even after playing multiple games. Managed to unlock by quitting out of Wordament and reloading from the home screen.

I cannot really give you any tips to unlock other than what's already out there: play late at night/early morning for the language region you're working on. Look for big words.

Per Lijnloos it appears this can unlock hours after you were at the top of the leaderboard.

This and the 250 achievement are server-side unlocks which means that it will not unlock until the game server communicates that you have earned it. As long as you qualify you can exit the game and come back later where it will unlock, according to the developers. More info here: http://wordament.com/2012/04/20/wordament-achievements/

FYI all there is no set "hour". The time is cumulative, so its for being the highest score in the last 60 minutes of real time. Once you see your name at the top of the "best of the hour" leaderboard I'd advise playing one more full game then exiting out and reloading.

Edit: The swedish boards are now active.

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